wave energy advantages and disadvantages

Comparison of Linear Wave Energy Convertors

Active Wave Energy Converter

Energy consistency: The pendulum system offers greater predictability for energy takeoff.

Pendulum swing controls a specific range for power takeoff allowing for optimized system design, predictable output, and efficient energy conversion.

AWEC’s are a permanent magnet linear pendulum generator, an ideal mechanism for converting buoyancy motion into electrical energy.

Point Absorbers:

Inconsistent Energy: These are typical Wave Energy Converter designs that use the heave of the wave to drive the linear generators and can generate many MegaWatts of energy.

Disadvantages:

Anchored systems
Wave height determines power to Linear system
Energy Converted from Buoyancy in waves
Usually located further off-cost in deeper waters.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Wave Energy

The benefits of the Active Wave Energy Converter are undiscovered largely because the technology is still in early stages of development.

The core technology for wave energy has not fully evolved or completely been decided. There are various suggested paths to the solution and each solution needs to be measured for it’s suitability. These are some of the measurements that are often used to develop a business case for wave energy:

Measurement	Metric	Advantages	Disadvantages
Required Investment	Often valued against the cost of other renewables	Oceans cover 71% of earths surface, which provides lots of renewable energy.	Often the costs are increased because it requires specialised methods.
Energy Cost Efficiency	Compared to other renewables.	The oceans are a 24 hour source of renewable energy that cannot be depleted.	On the surface often land based renewables are more favourable in cost.
Power conversion Efficiency	How much of the oceanic energy harnessed is converted into electricity	Active Kinetic 1 can convert even the smallest amount of energy, whereas other systems struggle to achieve high loads unless in ideal conditions.	This deepens on the technology selected.
Geolocation	Often this is controlled by the selection of wave technology. Active Kinetic 1 are less restricted by geolocations.	Active Kinetic 1 works with various applications to not limited by oceanic geolocation. Over 40% of people globally live near the coastal sea regions	Many wave energy technology need to operate in ideal geolocations to operate optimal energy conversion.
Ecological affects	Invasion and occupation of wave energy converters to the environment and ecological lifeforms.	Active Kinetic 1 is contained and operates outside of the water.	Many wave converters operate subsurface and cause a disruption to lifeforms, even those that operate above the surface cannot completely rule out disruption to sea and avian species.
Energy Transportability	Topics, such as voltage drop and length of transmission lines to wave technology determine this metric.	Active Kinetic 1 is contained in vessels that operate on or near the costal areas and outside of the water.	Many wave converters require long transmission lines where they operate in deep sea.
Environment Erosion	How does the wave technology affect the environment it operates within?	Often wave converters reduce wave energy and could improve causes of erosion	Some Wave technology, such as underwater generators cause tidal turbulence which can cause erosion.
Material corrosion	Material erosion, causing toxic excretion and affecting the technologies lifespan	Active Kinetic 1 is contained in vessels that operate for many years at Sea without corrosion	Many wave converters have exposed components which corrode this shortens the lifespan in surviving the harsh environment and can cause contamination.

Why is the Active Kinetic 1 – Active Wave Energy Converter a good investment.

Early stages of development:

Active Kinetic 1 project wave technology will be an economic investment with high returns.

The Active Wave Energy Converter is extremely efficient compared to more established wave technology and even renewables like solar panels and wind turbines.

Active Kinetic 1 energy technology has proven to be highly successful in converting wave power while it is still in a relatively immature stage of wave energy development.

The energy technology provided by Active Kinetic 1 is easily adaptable to a wider selection of geolocations than any wave technology ever created.

Because the energy technology is not required to be exposed directly to the sea the ecological effects are extremely low and negligible.